That’s a very real issue. I had the same frustration when I was building a small prototype app last year. At first, I relied on a basic open-source library, but it would fail almost every time the card wasn’t perfectly centered. Then I moved to solutions that were designed with multiple formats in mind, and the difference was huge. What helped most was finding a system that could handle tilted or partially cropped images without breaking. For example, there are tools like the Bank Card Scanner by OCR Studio that emphasize not just precision (they claim above 99% in tests) but also adaptability to different card angles and formats. I’ve tried it on standard credit cards, gift cards, and even ones with unusual layouts, and it did surprisingly well. The integration options are flexible too — you can go with WebAssembly for browser apps or SDKs if you’re working on mobile. That flexibility makes it much easier to test in real environments rather than just in controlled demos.